Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6783be14dc2683b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-05 01:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b0d0495e98ae973265a7a0f6ec4d5a77 SHA-1: 3828ec914498986706ed4c8911208ef7d73d4794 SHA-256: 6783be14dc2683b4254ecd61f4363b092fa7dd41f1801978c0bd11e033cb0686
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080cbcab33b7---62950360546.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46567668651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/66ff15e44ef4ebc7e7c35dc6cd98dc1c/dosikeximebafogaraxunap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4aad76192c6de8dbd4e6cba0ae916e02/vixezilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a814fd40ad1---19151853972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/37da6b8ee0116dab52dfcb88e409dff2/ridukevozorixenotalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fe6440d15---82124604581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://go-pxl.com/uploads/files/28525598506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b83127240db67add37ff9628b21b2212/77604424781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/niwakilajamufiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd448037f423386dd20bc7c72447263a/28419051730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wallisandemmanuel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdcb170d95b---75524315639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7aa8ccc0ac017b73614ab6da2d847489/bimuzegilexoxagavizimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd72b90114f---14125001310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metaglas.kr/userData/board/file/23761338572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ot59fia3giqfnpuqo59ab24qq5/91052925292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/7990255309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ro7l9hjoo170r70sssudnqjvg/29721367690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kcgabemm155ppolb3cjov80aj3/86299771199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valkexclusief.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/90130490757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nesb0vngo00jbggvcprt2c8nc0/72662022951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/jifolomavolofiduma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbfc5ac3537e22eb53d3c4ce7e610b03/52669086650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=modes+of+failure+of+tension+memberPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000107d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107D8 16876 bytes
SHA-256: b0762081955103a090195e23a0af4196149a2901d5127c7b828e02d5dceeb751
font_01_sfnt_off00013420.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13420 10748 bytes
SHA-256: a8f2a4dfc9dbfdc850cc1dedfa8dd0fb5713e993fba0b4bee4f54aa27f7c31b1
font_02_sfnt_off00014cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1